6/29/11

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rs2010

Can you set a specific refinement label as the default result set?

Hi, i'm wondering if it's possible to set a refinement label as the default result listing? For example, a user enters a query on a Google CS that has two refinement labels. Currently the search will load the results of both, but i want to load just the results of one by default, and have the other label there as another option for users who may be looking for something else.

thanks!

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All Replies (7)

7/15/11

cosgcomm

I have the exact same question. Hopefully an answer will be posted soon!

10/19/11

Jcmesserschmidt

You can use background labels to do this.

http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/docs/ranking.html#labels

11/28/11

Google user

Although it's undocumented by Google on this page:
http://code.google.com/intl/en/apis/customsearch/docs/js/cselement-reference.html

I looked through the JavaScript source file and found it IS possible ( see below ).

This will set the default refinement label, and change the tab. Perfecto!

var searchOps = {'defaultToRefinement': 'my_refinement_label'};
var searcher = new google.search.CustomSearchControl('[Custom Search ID]', searchOps);

12/1/11

hxu-cse

Wow! You guys rock! Yes, setting the default refinement label hasn't been documented yet (we are working on a more complete Element documentation including this), and it can be done exactly as you discovered.

12/3/11

toyNN

Nice - I've been searching around for just this ability to change the default search refinement label. Excellent and works perfectly and appears to semi-officially indorsed as a preferred method. Thanks for posting!

Here is the code I used for a results only page that's calling another function to parse the search query,

   google.load('search', '1', { language: 'en' }); 
    google.setOnLoadCallback(function () {
        var searchOps = { 'defaultToRefinement': 'my_refinement_label' };
        var customSearchControl = new google.search.CustomSearchControl('My CSE ID', searchOps);
        customSearchControl.setResultSetSize(google.search.Search.FILTERED_CSE_RESULTSET);
        var options = new google.search.DrawOptions();
        options.enableSearchResultsOnly();
        customSearchControl.draw('cse', options);
        var queryFromUrl = parseQueryFromUrl();
        if (queryFromUrl) {
            customSearchControl.execute(queryFromUrl);
        }
    }, true);

2/9/12

hxu-cse

And that option is documented now:

http://code.google.com/intl/en/apis/customsearch/docs/js/cselement-reference.html (search for "defaultToRefinement")

5/14/17

cregox

@hxu-cse is still right! :) 😄search for "defaultToRefinement" and, today, it brought me to https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/elementand I've used it as this, on my page's code:<gcse:search defaultToRefinement="main"></gcse:search>now, wished I knew how to keep the formatting here!2

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